The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has had a profound impact on health, economic and social conditions in the countries of Latin America...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused widespread closure of schools and disruption of education systems worldwide, requiring unprecedented adaptation...
The high prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in the Caribbean calls for sustained efforts to control these diseases and their risk...
This document examines the exacerbation of risks and the erosion of protection factors relating to physical, psychological and sexual violence in...
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have predicted that the social...
Since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared on 11 March 2020, in Latin America and the Caribbean, as in other world regions, it has been necessary to...
Currently the world is going through an unprecedented health, social, human and economic crisis due to the pandemic caused by the disease COVID-19...
The first regional dialogue in Latin America and the Caribbean “On the road to equality”: 30 years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child...
The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child on 20 November 1989. It was the first binding agreement at...
This paper investigates the effects of health-care expenditures on child mortality rates using a simultaneous-equation model for 93 developed and...
Enormous differences in health within and between countries intertwine closely with degrees of social disadvantage, and when People's health...
In Latin America, around 36,000 children under 15 have HIV, and in the Caribbean estimates are of 11,000 children living with the virus. Although...